The tradition for thousands of years is spring planting, summer sowing, autumn harvest, winter storage, three seasons a year, and winter is the season of cat winter, but in the year of the apocalypse, this habit seems to have changed. Since the first year of the Apocalypse, people seem to have forgotten that winter is the season of leisure, because in these years, when it comes to winter, there will always be a job to earn money provided by the imperial court. In the past, this kind of work belonged to the category of hard labor, but since the first year of the Apocalypse, it has become the court to pay idle people to work, and to be able to earn some spare money during the slack time, which even fools know is the best good thing, so every year at this time, the common people have saved up enough strength and waited for the village to post a notice.

However, this year's notice is not the same as in previous years, in Henan to Hebei Daimyofu, the notice posted on the north bank of the Yellow River is that the people need to be relocated this year, and those who are willing to move out will get ten times the land in Liaodong, and they will be exempted from paying taxes for ten years, because the imperial court wants to vigorously renovate the Yellow River, and it is necessary to turn this area into a reservoir of the Yellow River. Of course, if they are really unwilling to relocate, the imperial court is not reluctant, but requires that the ground of their village be raised to avoid flooding when the Yellow River is discharged.

Why did Zhu Youxiao think of this method? Because since ancient times, the Yellow River basin has been the most developed area of Chinese civilization, but after thousands of years of uncontrolled development, the land has become very barren, under the current conditions, to continue to let the Yellow River contribute to Chinese civilization, it must be given a time to recuperate. The Guanzhong area in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is one of the earliest birthplaces of Chinese civilization, the tribe of the ancient Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor reproduced and lived in this area, thousands of years of excessive development and utilization, caused serious soil erosion, the Yellow River has drought and flood disasters almost every year, and the bottom of the Yellow River silted up in the lower reaches is much higher than the flat land. Although Zhu Youxiao has continued to move people from this area to the northwest in recent years, this serious problem has not yet been completely solved. Zhu Youxiao's aim is to wait until the time is ripe to completely abolish the agricultural tax and even subsidize the peasants; as for the grain problem, with the application of the pot camel machine and the continuous improvement of agricultural production efficiency, this is not a problem at all for the population of only a little more than 100 million. Of course, it is not for all people to move away, people in higher places can do it voluntarily, while people in lower places need to move. It's not that they all move away immediately, and they can't adapt to it even when they arrive in Liaodong in the winter, but now let the people be mentally prepared, and then immigrate after the beginning of spring, and they will not delay planting a season of grain in Liaodong. Considering that there will be endless water resources in the future generations, and countless ground drains will be formed in the Central Plains, Zhu Youxiao plans to start preparing for future generations now, he wants to turn this area into a water storage area like Baiyangdian in Hebei Province in the future, and store the water of the Yellow River in this area to form a large water-rich wetland, and the water source is the Yellow River.

With the improvement of water and soil in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, the situation of soil erosion continues to reduce, the water of the Yellow River begins to become slowly not turbid, the water is stored here, after forming a large wetland, it will also feed back the humidity of the air, form a good climate cycle, so that the rainfall on the Loess Plateau is more abundant, and a large area of desert will become fertile land, rich pasture, raise more cattle and sheep, and also make the climate of the Central Plains more humid, without too many people to live, naturally there will be no flood and drought disasters for many years. It will only enrich the water here.

With the proclamation of the imperial court, the current people are not as old as the original homeland mentality, because the current social migration of the Ming Dynasty has formed a good habit, coupled with the emergence of more and more commodity flows, people's thinking has undergone great changes, and there is a very good relocation plan in the Ming Dynasty, immigrants will not be poor, will only become richer, this is the message from the villagers all over the country for many years, so the people are still willing to accept.

In addition, a large number of pot camel machines drove to this area, whether it was the villagers who were preparing to raise the terrain of their villages, or the depressions and ditches planned by the imperial court, there were busy crowds everywhere. The application of the pot camel machine has greatly reduced the labor intensity of the labor force, and the coal in Shanxi has been continuously transported here, and the pot camel machine no longer burns firewood, and the main driving force comes from the underground coal.

The hydrological and topographic data on the management of the Yellow River left by Pan Jitao, the most famous water conservancy expert in the Ming Dynasty, are still there, and Zhu Youxiao sent Shi Bangyao, a squire of the Ministry of Works, to preside over this peerless project. Shi Bangyao is only in his forties now, since he was a jinshi in the Wanli period, he has been in the Ministry of Industry for many years, and he has a very clear grasp of the hydrological and topographic data left by Pan Jitao, and Zhu Youxiao thinks that this person can be entrusted with important tasks.

Shi Bangyao came to Kaifeng with Zhu Youxiao's great trust, he will sit in Kaifeng, command this huge Huang control project, cure is a thousand years of miraculous work, if it is not cured, it will be stinking for 10,000 years. So after coming to Kaifeng, Shi Bangyao began to check the huge information left by Pan Jitao one by one, and sent almost all the servants sent to him by Zhu Youxiao, asking them to use the measuring tools given to them by Xu Guangqi and Song Yingxing, and to confirm all the places involved.

At this time, Shi Bangyao realized how heavy the task given to him by Zhu Youxiao was, and he had to let the messengers communicate with officials from all over the country, as well as the elders of the prominent clans in the countryside. Hundreds of low-lying, sparsely populated places that can store water, dozens of wide rivers that can be navigated after repair, and dense water and land transportation designs, almost exhausted Shi Bangyao to death.

Shi Bangyao calculated, and finally handed over to Zhu Youxiao a plan with a very large budget, it is estimated that the entire plan will not be completed in ten or eight years, and the amount of money invested is also huge, but once this plan is completed, not only will the entire lower reaches of the Yellow River benefit, but also basically will not cause any flooding in the Huaihe River Basin, and will form a Shandong and Jianghuai Plain that can regulate drought and flood at any time to ensure a bumper harvest, and future generations will enjoy infinite benefits, fundamentally solving the Yellow River's harm to this area. In particular, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal can coexist peacefully with the Yellow River, and form a dense water network like the south of the Yangtze River.

Looking at the thick planning materials sent by Shi Bangyao, Zhu Youxiao felt a little crying and laughing in his heart, such a huge plan would not cost the people and money like Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. In order not to waste money and money, and even in case of any civil uprising, Zhu Youxiao decided that it was better to build this plan slowly in stages, and as for the excessive use of labor like Yang Guang, it was not Zhu Youxiao's choice. In the Yang Guang era, there was no construction of machinery and equipment, and it was completely carried by manual shoulders, and countless migrant workers were mobilized, coupled with the rude and barbaric management of officials, which provoked the popular uprising. Zhu Youxiao will use a professional construction team, he plans to build a team of about 20,000 people, let Song Yingxing dig earthwork according to the small hook machine designed by himself, which can save a lot of manpower, and let the people participate in the farming season, you can earn some pocket money, so that not only will not arouse public anger, but also get the welcome of the people, but the cost will increase a lot, but it is really possible to complete this plan in ten or twenty years.

Originally, it was difficult to pass this matter in the cabinet of the court, but when Sun Chengzong gave a detailed explanation of the plan made by Shi Bangyao's team to the cabinet members, and then when everyone carefully read this thick pile of reports, they were almost stunned. The reason why Zhu Youxiao chose to complete this project in more than ten or twenty years is also to refer to the experience of the construction of the Qiao family compound in later generations.

In history, Zhu Youxiao had a disaster in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, that is, he accidentally fell into the water, and since then he has been frightened, and his body has been sick and crooked, and he died two years later. This year, Zhu Youxiao paid special attention to staying away from the waters, trying not to get wet, and gradually approaching the end of the year, it is estimated that he should be able to enter the next year smoothly, so Zhu Youxiao is also determined to live through the seven years of the Apocalypse and lead the Ming Dynasty to continue to develop rapidly.